On Friday 03 November 2006 14:25, Jos van Kan wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Removing an application which was installed using RPM is easy. But how does one remove a tar-red application installed using the 'install' command?
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To remove it, is it a matter of looking inside the archive and compiling a list of all the directories where it installed itself and then deleting those entries manually, or is there a faster method?
Use "checkinstall" for installing instead of "install" or "make install". That way an rpm package will be created which you can install and uninstall in the usual way. Unfortunately this won't help you with your current problem, for which I know no solution other than the one you already suggested. And you have to be careful in deleting shared libraries, since they may be used by other programs as well. :-(
Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704
I once did a "checkinstall" for an app that I previously installed with "make install", then installed the resulting rpm with Yast and finally de-installed it again with Yast. I did so, because somebody told me, the rpm-install would overwrite all the files that were installed with "make install", and so de-installing the rpm with Yast would remove everything completely. I don't know, if this is always true, but here it worked that time ;-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch